1920x1080 gone with 1.61?

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I can't even set it through the ini file - it defaults to 1024x768. Has anyone encountered this?

It worked fine in 1.52 - why did they remove it?

Edit: It turns out that you can only specify resolutions that are on your driver list. So if you want 1920x1080, you have to first create a custom driver for it. You can do this using nVidia's custom resolution option.

Seems strange that they don't allow you to play a windowed game at whatever resolution you want, but that's how you do it.

 

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Trying a bump

 

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Try gradually increasing the resolution and report how far can you go.

 

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It can go as high as 1920x1200, which is my monitor resolution. It can do any of the pre-set resolutions, including the 16/9 ratio of 1600x900. (1920x1080 = 16/9).

Did you mean I should try random resolutions that are not standard? I don't think my monitor can handle that.

 

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If you can play civ in 1920x1200 which is your monitor's native resolution, why do you prefer 1920x1080?

 

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The small horizontal lines allowed me to see my taskbar (Firefox, chat windows, etc) when gaming multiplayer and I would have to wait for people to finish turns...

Just can't understand why they *removed* a perfectly good resolution. And it's not like they can't do a 16/9 ratio, because they have 1600x900.

 

[catbeef]

thats odd, i play civ4 in 2048x1536..

 

[Comraddict]

1920x1080 is a custom resolution, are you sure that Windows works on it? How did you set it up? what is its refresh rate?

 

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It's just a 16x9 ratio resolution. It definitely supports it - Civ 4 supported it all the way up to the 1.52 patch, but the 1.61 made it disappear. When I try to edit the ini file, Civ forces it down to 1024x768.

All refresh rates are Vsync'd at 60Hz, the rate of my 2405FP Dell LCD monitor.

 

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bumping

 

[Kyle2820]

Hi, I'm having the exact same problem but with trying to get 1280x720, Even if I change it in the INI it bumps is back to 1024x768. Because of this I can't even start the game because I get an error saying that the game cannot reach the desired fullscreen resolution. I'm using a 720p LCD HDTV and dont have any problems with other PC games.

 

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It really sucks that they are blocking resolutions that used to run perfectly fine.

Maybe it's time to reinstall the game and apply 1.52 again. :boo:

 

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Here's hoping that the new expansion will take care of this really simple but frustrating problem.

 

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It turns out that you can only specify resolutions that are on your driver list. So if you want 1920x1080, you have to first create a custom driver for it. You can do this using nVidia's custom resolution option.

Seems strange that they don't allow you to play a windowed game at whatever resolution you want, but that's how you do it.